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2020
Jun
2
 
 
This day in 1969 marked the last telecast of Peyton Place...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
2
 
 
This particular entry from the currently and virtually staged Global Film Festival called We Are One, available on its website and YouTube channel, comes courtesy of the TriBeCa Film Festival, where the two filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Soderbergh, sat for a panel discussion at the 2019 festival. Back when people sat closely together, and gathered as an audience, and there were festivals. Major topic: the immensely difficult director’s cut restoration of Coppola&rsq
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
1
 
 
Now that its weekend of marathon teaser previews is over, Shout! Factory has added to its website every season and episode of The Carol Burnett Show. These are not, by any means, the original hours in their entirety – ridiculously prohibitive union contracts from musicians and others continue to restrict use of most musical elements. But anyone visiting the Shout! website can take a self-guided tour of what’s left of every episode from all 11 seasons, seeing sketches that h
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
1
 
 
Two weeks ago, one of my Best Bets was the one-week showing of National Theatre at Home’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Gillian Anderson as Blanche DuBois. Tonight, TCM presents the brilliant, incendiary 1951 movie version, in which the fragile Blanche is played by Vivien Leigh, with Kim Hunter as her sister, Stella. And at the center of this film, of course, is Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski. Brando’s naturalistic style of acting changed mov
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
1
 
 
On this day in 2005, ABC debuted Dancing with the Stars...